Over the past 20 years, I've has learned many tough lessons and overcome many entrepreneurial challenges...
Allon Raiz 1 Apr 2021
As entrepreneurs, we need to be making the right decisions for right now to ensure that our businesses and our people's livelihoods do not become another casualty of the virus...
Allon Raiz 1 Apr 2021
I remember clearly the first day I realised someone hated me - not for my personality (or not that I know of), not for something I had done to them, but simply because I competed with them...
Allon Raiz 17 Mar 2021
There are many reasons a hire could be inappropriate for your organisation. The two main reasons, though, are bad performance and lack of alignment...
Allon Raiz 11 Mar 2021
One of the first paradoxes a startup entrepreneur faces is choosing the size of their first rented - or purchased - business premises along with the duration of the lease...
Allon Raiz 18 Feb 2021
Everybody knows that the construction industry has been reeling for a number of years, a casualty of an economy that seems to be going backwards...
Allon Raiz 17 Feb 2021
One of the most commonly requested documents throughout your entrepreneurial journey will no doubt be your financials...
Allon Raiz 21 Jan 2021
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2020 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views...
Over the past 20 years, Raizcorp CEO Allon Raiz has learned many tough lessons and overcome many entrepreneurial challenges. He shares some of the most important lessons he has learned...
Allon Raiz 1 Dec 2020
In the startup years, the adage "the customer is king" remains fresh and deliberate in your mind. You have probably convinced your customers (and yourself) that by using your company they will receive much better service than from the "big guys."...
Allon Raiz 1 Dec 2020
In the 20 years I have worked with entrepreneurs, there is a phenomenon I have seen all too often - the false start...
Allon Raiz 18 Nov 2020
Allon Raiz shares some important lessons he has learned using a sequence that mirrors the typical stages of any entrepreneurial journey - from ideation through to scaling a business...
Allon Raiz 10 Nov 2020
Over the past 20 years, Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp, has learned many tough lessons and overcome many entrepreneurial challenges...
Allon Raiz 4 Nov 2020
With the ravaging effects Covid-19 has had on the economy, the only choice for many entrepreneurs was to start again. But, did they learn from the past?
Allon Raiz 9 Sep 2020
Allon Raiz draws on his more than 20 years of experience in business and in supporting over 13 000 entrepreneurial businesses to offer insights on the considerations and steps needed to start again and achieve the highest likelihood of success...
Allon Raiz 24 Aug 2020
Over the past 20 years, I have worked with many entrepreneurs who have wanted to give up. They have been at various stages of their journeys - some just a few months in, others several years into the game...
Allon Raiz 24 Aug 2020
Many entrepreneurs will have no option but to close down their businesses. With the ravaging effects Covid-19 has had on the economy, formal employment may not be an alternative for many...
Allon Raiz 5 Aug 2020
This September, Henley Business School Africa and Raizcorp will be offering the first-ever Saqa-accredited Higher Certificate in Management Practice for Entrepreneurs...
Issued by Henley Business School 14 Jul 2020
Kudoti has been named as South Africa's winner of the AIM Virtual Startup Pitch Competition...
On the 30 June 2020, Startup Mzansi will be hosting South Africa's National Virtual Pitch Competition for Startups...
When the Covid-19 system shock first hit, the initial - and correct - reaction by most entrepreneurs was to become defensive and protect what they had built...
Allon Raiz 4 Jun 2020
The common consensus is that there is going to be a "new normal" and that new normal is going to require most, if not all, organisations to recalibrate themselves to the new external context...
Allon Raiz 3 Jun 2020
In her authoritative book, Time to Think, author Nancy Kline talks about the importance of creating time to think...
Allon Raiz 29 May 2020
The scale of the national Covid-19 lockdown is unprecedented in living memory and entrepreneurs need to be making the right decisions...
Allon Raiz 18 May 2020
Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp, has been sharing his views and insights on weathering the Covid-19 storm and even thriving after it. This week he takes a look at extending ways in which you can provide value...
Allon Raiz 18 May 2020
In an environment in which threats are highly systemic, many are unseen or unknown. More importantly, they are fluid. For this reason, you have to consider and reconsider your threats daily and try to understand their impact and mitigation...
Allon Raiz 11 May 2020
In my previous article, Embrace your X, I discussed the importance for the leadership of entrepreneurial businesses to make comprehensive contingency plans...
Allon Raiz 8 May 2020
Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp, has been sharing his views and insights on weathering the Covid-19 pandemic and even thriving after it...
Allon Raiz 21 Apr 2020
As entrepreneurs, we need to be making the right decisions for right now to ensure that our businesses and our people's livelihoods do not become another casualty of the virus...
Allon Raiz 21 Apr 2020
As entrepreneurs, we need to be making the right decisions for right now to ensure that our businesses and our people's livelihoods do not become another casualty of the virus...
Allon Raiz 17 Apr 2020
The scale of the national Covid-19 lockdown is unprecedented. The repercussions - personal, professional, national and international - will reverberate for years to come...
Allon Raiz 8 Apr 2020
The scale of the national Covid-19 lockdown is unprecedented in living memory. As entrepreneurs, we need to be making the right decisions for right now...
Allon Raiz 3 Apr 2020
The scale of the national Covid-19 lockdown is unprecedented in living memory. The repercussions - personal, professional, national and international - will reverberate for years to come...
Allon Raiz 31 Mar 2020
In this series of articles, Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp, shares 20 of some of the most important lessons he has learned using a sequence that mirrors the typical stages of any entrepreneurial journey...
Allon Raiz 10 Mar 2020
Over the past 20 years, Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp, has learned many tough lessons and overcome many entrepreneurial challenges...
Allon Raiz 10 Mar 2020
I was recently asked to do some work for a large financial services company to help them think through and create a framework around building an organisation that genuinely operates differently...
Allon Raiz 13 Jan 2020
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views...
The ten-year anniversary edition of the ENGEN Pitch & Polish workshop and competition programme concluded with an all women final...
If I were to ask you what your business assets are, you would most probably list your computer equipment, your vehicles, your furniture and the like...
Allon Raiz 20 Sep 2019
If you're keen to participate in the awesome learning opportunities the MasterClasses at Loeries Creative Week will offer, then this is for you...
Entrepreneurs with a strong inner game live, breathe and work according to a set of principles that define everything they do...
Matt Brown, Issued by Digital Kungfu 18 Jul 2019
Just what is the fourth industrial revolution? No really, what is it all about beyond the hype and jargon?
Garth Williams 11 Mar 2019
Chris Ogden, co-founder of RubiBlue, talks about his business journey and how an encounter with Raizcorp and signing up with Partner Elite shifted his thinking...
You have the opportunity to choose from eight (four in the morning and four in the afternoon) Loeries MasterClasses on Thursday, 16 August, to learn from leading brand communicators...
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2017 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views...
Digital trends inform business owners on how to improve their content marketing efforts...
Allon Raiz 21 Nov 2017
Engen Pitch & Polish is in pursuit of South African entrepreneurs, brave enough to pitch, fail, take feedback, and stand up again...
An interview with Allon Raiz, founder and CEO of Raizcorp to find out what one could expect to learn from his masterclass on ‘Why small agencies fail'...
Jessica Tennant 16 Aug 2017
Does the construct of Millennials really exist or is it just hype based on the idealism of the era?
Allon Raiz 6 Jul 2017
Extensive scientific research, supporting the personal and professional benefits of a more holistic approach to life and work, has led to a growing respect for mindfulness programmes and practices in the workplace...